Kitchen Assistant: Tuck Shop Coordinator

10-12 hours a week, term time only. May be combined with other jobs currently being advertised within the school if desired.

Closing date

3 pm on 12 October 2018

Interview date(s)

Monday 22nd October 2018

Job details

Required 8th November 2018 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Orleton School Food CIC is looking for a kitchen assistant to operate our popular healthy tuck shop. The hours are 9.45-11.15am, term time only, plus between 3 and 5 additional hours per week for shopping and preparing cooked foods.

Our very popular Pick and Mix Tuck Shop provides a small healthy snack to around 90 children every day during morning break. Tuck Shop is operated by Class 5 students with the support of this postholder. You will prepare the food, set up the stand and supervise the class 5 students to serve the ‘customers’ safely and support students to try new foods and be more adventurous.

You do not need a formal catering qualification (although it would be an advantage) but you do need to be a confident and well-organized home cook as you will need to be able to efficiently prepare large quantities of simple foods in a short period. You must also be willing to work with children in an encouraging and supportive way, have good communication skills and a genuine commitment to encouraging children to be adventurous and excited about food. You will need to work on your own initiative, plan and make decisions to keep the service running efficiently.

Our kitchen team and Orleton Primary School are currently advertising several other part time posts. You may consider combining this Tuck Shop post with one or more of those posts if more total hours of work are needed. Job share would be considered. Please search on this website for the following posts: